སྨྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི་ཕན་ཡོན་མཁན་རི་པོ་ཆེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཕུན་ཚོག་ལགས་ཀྱི་གསུང།༡༽🌼🌸🌺🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

༄།། །སྨྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི་ཕན་ཡོན་མཁན་རི་པོ་ཆེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཕུན་ཚོག་ལགས་ཀྱི་གསུང། ༡༽ 🌼🌸🌺🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

The nyungné (སྙུང་གནས་/སྨྱུང་གནས་) ceremony is a religious practice of austerity and fasting based on the worship of Avalokiteśvara.

The nyungné practice is traced back to Bhikṣuṇī Pelmo, who lived about a thousand years ago and is identified by some with Princess Lakṣmīkara of Oḍḍiyana. After she became a renunciate, she is supposed to have suffered from leprosy, which she eventually cured with rigorous and committed worship of Avalokiteśvara and the recitation of the mantras associated with Avalokiteśvara.

The core part of the nyungné practice involves the observance of the eight precepts to avoid taking life, taking what is not given, speaking falsehood, engaging in sexual intercourse, consuming intoxicants, using perfumes, ornaments and entertainment, eating after midday and sitting on high seats. This kind of observance is also found in the observance of the one day upavāsatha or nyené precepts in the vinaya tradition of monastic discipline. In the vinaya tradition of pratimokśa vows, a person can take a vow to follow the eight precepts for a day and night.
The practice normally last three days. On the first day, the participants take the vow to observe the eight precepts. Unlike the upavāsatha vows, the nyungné vow is taken from a master, if there is one available, or from some holy objects or Buddhas through visualization. The participants cultivate the thought of Bodhicitta and compassion to undertake nyungné vow and retreat. Thus, the vow is taken with an altruistic intention to reach enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings and to purify the impurities of all sentient beings.

While taking part in the retreat and observing the eight vows, the practitioners also engage in a rigorous practice of Avalokiteśvara in its form with eleven heads and thousand arms. The ceremony and worship is carried through visualization, prayers, prostrations, making offerings and recitation of the mantra spells associated with Avalokiteśvara. Thus, the nyungné retreat is not just a practice of austerity, fasting and avoidance of ordinary speech but a time to engage fully in the meditation and practice related to Avalokiteśvara. It is a time to engross in the practice of compassion and supplication to Avalokiteśvara. Participants in the nyungné retreat spend a much of the time reciting the om maṇi padme huṃ mantra and also singing it in melodious tunes.

The nyungné practice is said to have great power to cleanse and purify negative karmic prosperity and expedite spiritual transformation. The tantras and other literatures on nyungné discuss in detail the many benefits of observing nyungné retreat for both happiness and peace in the world, for cleansing the negativities and impurities of the body and mind and for speeding up the process of enlightenment. 💐💐💐🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻